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Sure, this is fair. I tend to use "hacking" to mean "tinkering", and it could be said that I have a fairly loose usage of the word.

To me, this article gets to the crux of what I find particularly delightful about hacking (tinkering?): unraveling layers of complexity underneath. I feel like I have a little better understanding of what's happening when I punch in `ls`, and I think that particular delight and knowledge is the kind of thing that appeals to tinkerers (hackers? :p) like myself. So - in my view - entirely appropriate for this crowd!

But you have a fair point; there's nothing particularly out-of-the-ordinary of this code or process, and in that sense, isn't newsworthy to hackers.

(I did not downvote you incidentally; I think it's interesting to get a sense of peoples' different thresholds for what constitutes "hacker." I play the saxophone, and an instructor once told me that people always came up to him and said "I want to be a musician. How can I do that?" Well it turns out that the moment you play "hot cross buns" on your instrument, you are indeed a musician. Perhaps not a skilled one, but you have in fact made music. I think of hacking in a similar way, and freely admit that it is a loose use of the word!)
One can "style" text without a "markup language". For example
star text star <- bold. I went further in http://simpliwiki.com/SimpliWiki
Another ridiculous patent ... the system truly is collapsing!
I'm not plugged into the gamedev world, but how about Lua + C? I've been impressed by LuaJIT.

Of course if you like Java, use Java.
> I won't be writing about anything particularly exciting for anyone. If writing about another subject I won't be writing anything better than what you can already find on any given book written by an expert.

How do you know that? Does it matter? If you don't want to write for the public, write for yourself. Put what you write in a folder and let it sit for a (week|month|however-long). Keep writing, keep putting stuff in the folder. Every once in awhile, read what you wrote. Eventually you might have something you'll want to publish. If not, it doesn't matter. You've written because it's fun to write, because you like writing. The more you write, the better a writer you can become.
*A few billion years after that, you'll be standing on a hill looking up on a clear night, and the sky will be close to pitch black*

not that long ago we didn't know that we live on a sphere

what if universe is a 4 dimensional sphere?
Google Motors? Google Explored Manufacturing Driverless Cars
http://www.nychold.com/rev-bishop-0302.html

Is this the actual bullying or is it something more than this?

This particular article by Bishop is not bullying, it's standard academic criticism and it's very reasonable.

If this is representative of the actual issues, then that seriously changes my opinion of what is going on here.

If this is the worst of it, I strongly recommend that everyone read this book review and decide for themselves if Bishop is a villain who is unfairly bullying another academic.
Actually there are several similar solutions out there already. Check out http://www.monkeylectric.com or http://revolights.com

Still, this is a pretty neat addition to this increasingly crowded bicycle light accessory space.
The San Francisco Games Revolution Is Over
Man, such fragile stuff. Why not code a function yourself that turns a number into a string representing it decimally with the commas every three digits. I normally like and use good library functions and standards, but if they're that fragile and depend on your environment then no thanks.
I expect/hope that if so, any attempt to prosecute would result in wide media coverage/negative publicity for the prosecutor. The case would be dropped, and/or the product would be made legal - by adjustment of the law and/or the Nori.
There are quite a few stories about people being sent back into the past.

Just off the top of my head I can think of: Conrad Stalingrad, Jainsiaries, and 1635 (Eric Flint).

And there are ofcourse the alternate history stories like the Drakar chronicles (wherein there was a African slave-state empire rather than traditional colonialism).
You and Patrick have done an exemplary job of leveraging the herd mentality, but some of us are getting tired of the pitch. How many times are you going to try and milk this cow?
For promoted posts these post generally only show for people that have liked and their friends. So it could depend a lot on where the page likes are from, specifically if some are from Facebook ads then the problem may have started back there.
You are entirely missing the point of this whole thing.

It is exactly about showing how hard it is to get a trivial change right in every detail. Your 10 second hack is what is wrong with 10 second hacks in general and even with most real solutions that are not carefully thought out.

It's not only that the devil is in the details it is all details. And you need to get all of them right, not just the current subset of the problem that you happen to be working on.
Yes, please write. I want to read what you have to say, and as a pleasant bonus, writing will improve the way you think and lead your life.
> That's sort of like saying "the depressing truth about relationships is that you need to go out and meet people to get involved in one."

This was supposed to be snarky but it's actually a great analogy. There are many people who would love to be able to skip all the go out-meet-impress-pickup courting rituals and get right into a relationship, just like there are many devs who would love for their product to sell itself on its own merits. Usually doesn't work very well in either case but that's not to dismiss this particular wishful thinking.
Yeah, I was also struck by the similarity to revolights (which, incidentally, was also kickstarter-funded). This one seems somewhat less effective (no forward or rear illumination, and no easy way, from the side, to distinguish the front wheel from the back to guess the direction of travel), but on the other hand, I suspect it will be cheaper, easier to install, and get you much more use on a charge.
thanks to hvass (the link is to a paywalled site), the basic idea is:

- some tasks require "lateral thinking". the example given is: what joins the words "lick", "sprinkle", "mine"? maybe lateral thinking is the wrong expression, but the idea is that the solution requires making connections from unrelated "semantic areas"

- people guess that the brain has a network-like approach where "activation" starts at nodes associated with the different concepts ("sprinkle", etc) and slowly spreads outwards, until, presumably, all three growing (glowing? ;o) areas meet at "salt".

- sleep helps for these tasks, but not for easier ones.
Where would construction management be without civil engineering? The analogy between construction firms and compiler toolchains is either laughable or serious publishable research--I've never seen it mentioned once in the civil engineering literature.
Why do I need to buy a book to raise my rates? I do anyway. Why did you need to? I'm confused.
A related, long yet interesting, article is this one http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm
Orson Scott Card submitted a short story based in a forest to a scifi magazine and was told 'scifi has rivets in it'.
I use few "social" web links, maybe 1%. He fails to mention bookmarking. Most of the traffic I generate comes from bookmarked or search engine URLs. (I may or may not be unusual in that I surf with referrer turned off.)
VCs are needed as an asset class because there is a market opportunity to service a small segment of the population that are trying to create high risk, capital light, and high growth potential businesses that do not fit the risk/collateral/historical cash flow characteristics that banks need to believe that you can service their debt. VC money is EXTREMELY expensive and can be thought about as similar to credit card debt and payday lending. Sure, VCs have value added services like contacts and expertise that help portfolio companies potentially have a higher chance of success, but their primary motivation to help you is to return money to their limited partners (and themselves through management fees and carried interest). I'm an entrepreneur and know many amazing VCs who hopefully will someday fund my business but I'm realistic in acknowledging the nature of the relationship.
Very cool. Sure makes me wish I was going to Startup School 2012. Maybe next year. I have 365 days to make it happen!
I'm currently using VPS services from buyvm.net. However, if business depends on it I've been using EC2 with good results.
Stop dreaming, and start doing.
This could be done with EL wire.
I really don't understand why block size is 512 by default. It should really be 1 by default.

Except for someone with an ancient hard disk who thinks in blocks instead of (mega, giga, etc...)bytes, who ever needs or wants that?
The thing is, I've been around HN for a few years. I've seen people like patio11 transform from what they were doing before, to selling these types of courses. I've also seen patio11 give out free, amazing material for the last 2 years. And a lot more before I was around.

So when someone new to the "scene" is skeptical, I find it very funny. You have a right to be skeptical, of course, but really the best most of us can offer is to say: "These people know what they're talking about. And they're not just selling snake oil. We've known them for years". Maybe if enough people say it, it will help prove to you that it's not just a "marketing scheme".

P.S. I don't know Brennan Dunn, and haven't (yet) read his book, but he is endorsed by patio11. So is Amy Hoy, if I'm not mistaken. And with Amy, I've also used her time-tracking software for some time.
For me, -h makes it more difficult to quickly compare the sizes of files in one list by glance.
This is something that I have to do often enough that it has prevented me from adding -h to my ls alias.
I'd have to use it for a bit to be sure, but the post's suggestion seems a pretty good 'best of both worlds' solution to me.
Totally misleading headline, crap science journalism. They didn't "uncover" anything, just invented a new (untested) hypothesis.
You did not give a `working 1 line example with the answer.' It doesn't do the right thing, and I pointed out two failure cases.

My constructive criticism is that your approach is wrong, should not be done, and cannot be easily fixed. One should never attempt to process the general output of ls. It's doable - I lived through the years of processing the "list"/"ls" output from random ftp servers - but it's nasty. Sure, you can add '$@' but then you have to worry about, say, "-i", which shows the inode number as a new leading column or "-n" which shows user/group ids instead of names. How does your alias/perl script figure out which column is the one which needs the commas?

You'll either end up with a very fragile system (producing the erroneous output as your 1-liner does) or you'll end up trying to understand most of the ls command-line arguments and/or heuristics to guess based on the output. The well-known "BUGS" section of the Unix man page says "To maintain backward compatibility, the relationships between the many options are quite complex." You're in for a long slog if you go this route.

Yes, if you want a one-off solution for a specific set of outputs then your approach would work. That would be also be boring and trivial. The linked-to article, on the other hand, was interesting.
Everything you write would be equally valid justifications to buy every self-help or get-rich-quick book out there.

It wouldn't for me, because I haven't bought all those other books or gotten results from them. I did from this one. YMMV.

Your attack can be used for any product that's ever been sold: "Wait, you're telling me that I'll get more value from this than what I'm paying for it. Hmm...that sounds an awful lot like every get-rich-quick scheme I've heard." Yes, marketing sounds like marketing, whether it's for a bad product or a good one. If you think that this sounds like more fluff than value, don't buy it. But attacking it (not you, but others upstream) because it's for sale and purporting to offer net value seems ridiculous.
I wouldn't be quick to keep saying it'll only be on one carrier... We saw what stunts nokia is pulling with giving AT&T exclusivity on the 820 and then proceeding to give exclusivity of variants of the 820 to other carriers. There's no saying they won't do the same with the 920.
ie9 mobile supports most modern standards, are you planning on not supporting firefox mobile/opera mobile either?
Dutch law requires bicycles to have spoke or tire reflectors since 1987. In addition, reflectors on the pedals and a white strip (30 cm) at the back of the bike are also mandatory.
It's syncs contacts to windows live, so that's just incorrect. You haven't seen all WP8 features yet so I wouldn't be so quick to judge.
I started coding slightly more than a year ago, in large part because of HN and the mentality of creating things for yourself, so I thought I'd share my first true weekend project (okay, it was 3 Saturdays, part of a Tuesday, and a Sunday). It's nothing special, but I still wanted to put something out there for display. I'll gladly answer all questions! :)